... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent nor kind.

It is better to lose your pride with someone you love rather than to lose that someone you love with your useless pride.

Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors.

The plea of ignorance will never take away our responsibilities.

It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.